Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
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Only when it is a duty to love, only then is love eternally and happily secured against despair.
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A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.
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One can advise comfortably from a safe port.
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To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity
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Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.
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